This is more than just a failure of fact checking…or another author who has lost his damn mind...this bitch thinks it’s an example of the masses failing to properly appreciate fiction.

Blink.

Some of these memoirs exposed as fiction are really good works of…well, fiction!

But we like the fantastical to be real…to read about amazing real life stories of beautiful romance, foster children turn gang members turned authors or a million little pieces of recovery.

Those stories may be out there, but do they only work if they are true life fact infused memoirs?

Fiction kicks ass...sometimes an escape from reality is just what you need. A bitch can't help but wonder why people opt for the lie rather than admit that they wrote a good story and less than half of it really happened.

Mayhap it’s easier to promote a memoir and that’s why they are hot. A few sessions of media training for the author and they can send her or him forth to share their so false it sinks tale to the masses.

Or maybe the authors are assholes trying to make a dime and get fifteen minutes fast and easy.

Either way, my people call that shit fiction.

Fiction, for the love of all that's still a good read and should have been pitched that way!

Apparently the bible is still one of the most popular works of fiction. Can you imagine how horrifying it would be if followers of, say the NY Times Bestseller list started insisting we live our lives by some of those efforts? I could perhaps handle Malcolm Gladwell, but GLENN BECK???

I don't know what the hubbub is regarding the story not being true. I think the more important thing here is that it was a compelling read. Isn't that why she selects the books she does, rather than selecting them based on genre?

And really, if Oprah is being duped, so too are the editors and publishers who are getting the books into print... aren't they?

Personally, I don't care what Oprah says or recommends. Very rarely have I gone out to buy a book on her "Book Club" list; and iffin' I do obtain the book, I can tell you it's not because she gave it the "thumbs up," it's because I thought it would be a good read.

Additionally... if folks want to "out" every work of fiction which has been presented as FACT, perhaps we should start with redacting all the lies and injustices found within most American high school history books.